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   Call - CPSR/DIAC02 - Patterns for Participation, Action, and Change             
     Andreas Broeckmann <[email protected]>                                    

   open submission competition details                                             
     "Sue Jones" <[email protected]>                                                       

   Electrofringe 2001                                                              
     "shannon o'neill" <[email protected]>                                  

   Vote in the UTOPIAN W.C. 2001!                                                  
     "SOC.Stockholm" <[email protected]>                                                   

   Ausstellung im =?iso-8859-1?Q?Edith=2DRu=DF=2DHaus=20f=FCr?= Medienkunst        
     Kulturamt der Stadt Oldenburg <[email protected]>                     

   "Interpassivitaet"-Vortrag                                                      
     Nina =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tempor=E4r?= <[email protected]>                             

   [Hacker Art News] formail -zx: Subject:                                         
     "Tommaso Tozzi" <[email protected]>                                               

   ny: global studies conference 9/21-22/01                                        
     "geert lovink" <[email protected]>                                                

   call - 'very CYBERFEMINIST INTERNATIONAL'                                       
     Cornelia Sollfrank <[email protected]>                                          



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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 14:42:52 +0200
From: Andreas Broeckmann <[email protected]>
Subject: Call - CPSR/DIAC02 - Patterns for Participation, Action, and Change

Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 13:04:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lorraine Pozzi <[email protected]>

Hi,

I'm working with Doug Schuler on the upcoming DIAC-02 symposium
(Seattle, May 16-19, 2002) sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility and the National Communication Association Task Force
on the Digital Divide.

Doug gave me your address and suggested that I send you this call
for submissions.

In conjunction with the symposium we are also developing an extensive,
collective online resource which represents the wisdom and creativity of
groups like yours. For that reason we're trying to open up this discussion
up as much as possible.  This project cannot succeed without a wide variety
of voices.

Please take a look at the "Call for Submissions" included below and send
it out  to any appropriate colleagues or lists.

Thanks very much for your time and consideration. Feel free to write
me or Doug Schuler ([email protected]) if you have any questions or
comments.

We hope you can participate in some way!


Lorraine Pozzi
[email protected]
Organizational Liaison
Shaping the Network Society Symposium
May 16-19, 2002, Seattle
- -----------------------------------------------------------



First CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS


Please forward to interested people, lists, newsgroups. Thank you!


Shaping the Network Society:
Patterns for Participation, Action, and Change
http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/diac02/


May 16-19, 2002
Seattle, Washington, USA


Tomorrow's information and communication infrastructure is being shaped
today.

      But by whom and to what ends?

Researchers, community workers, social activists, educators and
students, journalists, artists, policymakers, and citizens are all
concerned about the shape that this new infrastructure will take.

   Will it meet the needs of all people?
   Will it help the citizenry address current and future issues?
   Will it promote democracy, social justice, sustainability?
   Will the appropriate research be conducted?
   Will equitable policies be enacted?


Symposium Aims

A "public sphere" where people learn about, discuss, and deliberate
on important issues, such as increasing economic disparity,
militarization, environmental degradation, racism or sexism, is
critical to our future.

Clearly, information and communication technology--and the uses to
which it is put--is central to any effort that helps empower people to
effectively look at and resolve our collective concerns.

At the same time, giant media conglomerates and computer companies are
rapidly increasing their control of the information and communication
infrastructure upon which this public sphere depends.  Governments,
too, are often part of this problem;  instead of promoting access and
two-way access to this infrastructure, they actively or passively
discourage civic sector uses.

Civil society is responding in a million ways.  The opportunities and
challenges offered by a global "network society" are too great to be
ignored.

The Shaping the Network Society symposium is designed to aid in these
efforts by providing a forum and a platform for these critical issues.
And, through the use of "patterns," we hope that this conference will
help inject organization, motivation, and inspiration into the
evolution of an information and communication infrastructure that
truly meets today's -- and tomorrow's -- urgent needs.

Please join us in Seattle (and beyond) in May 2002 for this exciting
and important event!


DIAC-02

This event will be the eighth biannual Directions and Implications of
Advanced Computing (DIAC) symposium.  A variety of events are planned
ranging from invited speakers, panel discussions, and pattern
presentations to numerous opportunities for informal working sessions
- -- both planned and spontaneous -- on various topics.  Also, as with
previous DIAC symposia, we will do our best to provide a few surprises ...


Pattern Orientation

To promote bridge-building, we are soliciting "patterns," instead of
abstracts, that will be developed into full papers for this symposium.
A "pattern" is a careful description of a solution or suggestion for
remedying an identified problem in a given context that can be used
to help develop and harness communication and information technology
in ways that affirm human values.

The information contained in patterns is similar to that in
traditional abstracts or papers, but it is arranged in a common
structure in order to inspire scholars and practitioners to think
about their work in terms of social implications and actual social
engagement; build networks that include research, practice, and
advocacy; and facilitate the integration of all submitted patterns
into a coherent network of patterns, or "pattern language," that will
form a useful and compelling knowledge structure which can help spur
additional research, solutions, and activism. As a result, individual
patterns are exciting because each is, in essence, a small theory
about some part of the communication and information universe.  In
addition, since the individual patterns will be stored in an online
database, the overall strategy opens myriad possibilities that will
allow us as a community to synthesize the patterns into a collectively
constructed body that creates new opportunities for collaboration and
deliberation.

We believe that the "pattern" orientation will be beneficial and
thought-provoking for all participants.  If you are tempted to submit
a pattern, we encourage you to do so.  Although this approach may
require different thinking, we believe that it will be worth the
effort.

Patterns can be submitted for consideration for presentation at the
Shaping the Network Society conference, or simply to be published on
the web site and as a contribution to the knowledge structure.



Developing and Submitting Patterns

     Patterns are SOLUTIONS to PROBLEMS in a given CONTEXT.

     Patterns can be observable actions, empirical findings,
     hypotheses, theories, social or media critiques, case studies,
     or "best practices";  indeed, any template or crystallized or
     distilled knowledge in some area that will help people in the
     field--researchers, practitioners, journalists, policymakers,
     artists, citizens.

     Patterns can address problems, such as the digital divide, that
     arise in a range of contexts--social, cultural, educational,
     economic, community, political, and/or technological.

     Patterns exist at all levels; they can be "global" as well as
       "local," theoretical as well as practical.

     Patterns are the springboard for discussion, research, and
        activism.

The primary elements needed to develop a pattern for submission are:


- - The name or TITLE of the pattern (brief, one-ten words).
- - A succinct statement of the essence of the PROBLEM in one or two
  sentences.
- - A DISCUSSION section (300-600 words) that describes the background
  of the problem, evidence for its proposed solution, and the range of
  ways that the solution can be applied.
- - The SOLUTION to the problem is presented in a summary form that
  describes the field of physical and social relationships which are
  required to solve the stated problem, in the stated context.
- - An optional descriptive image can be used to provide a visual
  representation of your pattern and/or an optional summary image can
  show a pictorial representation (diagram) of the solution.  Although
  these IMAGES are an optional element, we encourage you to include
  them to supply useful information that is difficult to provide in
  words and to make your pattern page more attractive and consistent
  with other patterns.

Complete details on pattern submission, including example patterns,
are available for further clarification at the symposium web site:
http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/diac02/

The preferred way to submit patterns is through the pattern intake
site, which can be accessed from the symposium site or directly at:
http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/diac02/pattern.cgi.  If you cannot
access the intake site, please send your pattern as email text (no
attachments) to [email protected].  Please consult the help page,
http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/diac02/patterns/help.html, for
guidance on an e-mail submission.


Important Dates

  December 1, 2001  Deadline for pattern submission for conference
                      consideration
  January 15, 2002  Feedback to conference pattern submitters
                      (accept/reject decision)
  March 15, 2002    Full papers (based on accepted patterns) due
  April 15, 2002    Last day to submit patterns for database inclusion
                      only
  May 16-19, 2002   Shaping the Network Society Symposium


Sponsors

Public Sphere Project of Computer Professionals for
  Social Responsibility (CPSR)

National Communication Association Task Force on the Digital Divide


Program committee

Abdul Alkalimet (US), Alain Ambrosi (Canada), Ann Bishop (US),
Kwasi Boakye-Akyeampong (Ghana), Rod Carveth (US), Andrew Clement
(Canada), Fiorella de Cindio (Italy), Peter Day (UK), Susana
Finquelievich (Argentina), Mike Gurstein (Canada), Harry Hochheiser
(US), Toru Ishida (Japan), Susan Kretchmer (US), Brian Loader (UK),
Geert Lovink (Netherlands, Australia), Richard Lowenberg (US), Peter
Mambrey (Germany), Peter Miller (US), Kenneth Pigg (US), Scott
Robinson (Mexico), Partha Pratim Sarker (Bangladesh), Doug Schuler
(US), David Silver (US), Sergei Stafeev (Russia), Erik Stolterman
(Sweden) and Peter Van den Besselaar (Netherlands).


Other invaluable assistance

Christopher Alexander (inspiration and advice), Steve Berczuk
(patterns), Susan Kretchmer and Rod Carveth (NCA liaisons), Noriko
Okazaki (graphics), Robin Oppenheimer (advisor), Scott Rose (web
technology). Nancy White (advisor).



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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:31:03 +0100
From: "Sue Jones" <[email protected]>
Subject: open submission competition details



e-2 invites submissions to Minus20, an open submission project for =
web-based artworks.=20
Minus20 focuses upon works of powerful immediacy with a fast download =
time and accordingly works must be less than 20k. e-2 invites =
submissions from a wide a range of entrants, both those whose practice =
is new media based and artists who wish to extend their practice to make =
a digital work.

Selected works may well range from extremely simple, low-tech pieces to =
those employing advanced technology. These might include java scripting, =
Flash animation, sound files, text based work or simply a single 20k =
image. Work will be selected less for its technological innovation and =
more for being engaging pieces of art.

Work will be selected by critic Sacha Craddock, artist Jon Thomson (of =
artist duo Thomson and Craighead) and John Wyver from Illuminations, =
along with e-2.

For details and submission visit:

http://www.e-2.org/home.html




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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 21:36:10 +1000
From: "shannon o'neill" <[email protected]>
Subject: Electrofringe 2001

ELECTROFRINGE FESTIVAL 2001
September 27 - October 1
Newcastle, New South Wales
Australia
http://electrofringe.org


Electrofringe 2001 will once again bring together hundreds of
local and international media makers, audio-visual creators,
electronic musicians, gamers and just plain digital trouble
makers. Following on from the last three years, Electrofringe
2001 will focus on issues of copyright and intellectual property.

Electrofringe is the electronic media contingent of the larger
This Is Not Art festival <http://thisisnotart.org> which includes
Sound Summit, The National Young Writers Festival and The
National Student Media Conference.


INTERNATIONAL GUESTS

Electrofringe has expanded this year to include several
international participants:

Mark Gunderson (USA). Founder of The Evolution Control
Committee and an experimental musician and arts organizer,
focusing on recycled/assemblage audio and arts and technologies.
The ECC is infamous for all sorts of pranks, including utilising
Napster for hilarious results.
http://evolution-control.com

Vicki Bennet from People Like Us (UK) blurs audio and video
to make a surrealistic and humorous blend of monotonous yet
strangely captivating brain durge.
http://peoplelikeus.org

Andy Cox (UK) is a founding member of Together We Can Defeat
Capitalism. An environmental engineer, he uses his skills to annoy
large corporations. He also perplexed many an art goer with his
fake Whitney Biennial website. At Electrofringe, he will relaunch
his Citybank site, currently down for legal reasons.
http://TWCDC.com

Scientifically Speaking with Irene Moon (USA) blurs the lines
between science, music and performance art.
http://www.eyedrum.org/MOON/i-moon.html

Steev Hise (USA) is a cultural worker based in San Francisco
who chews up old media and spits out new art. He founded
Detritus.net, probably the most well known web source about
recycled culture.
http://detritus.net

Other international guests at This Is Not Art this year include
Hrvatski (USA), Mad Professor (UK), David Shea (Belgium),
Fat Cat Records (UK), Anticon (USA), The Wire magazine (UK),
DJ Mr King (UK), Jimi Chen, DJ TY and Vince Chung (Taiwan).


PERFORMANCES

Each night, Newcastle will erupt with sounds and visuals you
won't catch anywhere else. Over 180 performers will make this
Australia's largest ever electronica and hip hop event.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT (September 26)

Opening night launch party.
8pm: Mission Theatre: (Free!)
Featuring mellow sounds from DJ Mr. King (UK), Betaville
Orchestra, I/O, and Sub Bass Snarl amongst others.

Audio Visual Exhibition
A/V Warehouse: (Entry By Donation)
oniKa, Dj Bleak, iOnic, Goku, Craig G, Psychenaut, Throbgoblin,
Phat Ali, Anomaly, Phreaddee & Anthony Russell.

THURSDAY NIGHT (September 27)

ROTOR
8 - 11pm: Mission Theatre: ($6 at the door):
Perimetric Halo with Minit, Magmafinder & Pimmon.
Kazumichi Grime, Lalila, Coklacoma, Julian Knowles, Snawklor,
Lux Mammoth, Hydatid, Pi, A,B'n'C, Bruce Mowson, Seo,
Valley of Death.

Clan Analogue, Surgery, Couchblip Labels Showcase:
10pm-5am: Cambridge Hotel: ($6 at the door):
Prop, B(if)tek, Pretty Boy Crossover, Deepchild, Sobriquet, Thug,
Disco Stu, Gordon Finlayson, Nerve Agent, Telemetry Orchestra,
5000 Fingers of Dr T, Superscience, Modula, Bloq, Robokoneko,
Disjunction Reunion.

Art Wars: Hip Hop Strikes Back
CBD Hotel: ($8 at the door)
Terminal Illness, Terra Firma, Cannibal Tribe, Blades of Hades,
Brad Strutt and Solemon Kleptoe, DJ Mathematics, Robotech
vs. Stawn Break Crew, DJ skooby and Scottie B, Bric A Brac,
MC Andre, DJ Armee, DJ Maniak.

Audio Visual Exhibition
A/V Warehouse: (Entry By Donation)
Scoobie, Scotty B, Peter Hall, Gordon Smith.

FRIDAY NIGHT (September 28)

(C)(R)(TM)
8pm - 11:30pm: Mission Theatre: ($15 or PASS):
People Like Us (UK), Evolution Control Committee (USA),
Steev Hise (USA), Scientifically Speaking with Irene Moon (USA),
Wake Up And Listen, Antediluvian Rocking Horse, Spanky,
Sweden, JG.

Hip Hop Jam and Electro/Breaks/Drum n Bass
10pm - 5am: Cambridge Hotel: ($10 or PASS)
Massive Oz-Wide Hip-Hop-Electro jam, Elefant Traks showcase.
Two Dogs, DJ Soup, The Bird, Explanetary, MC Brad Strut,
Jonny Phive, Crazy Baldheads, Reference Point, Upshot, pH,
Mark Pollard, Phonkubot, Cindii, Sonik Professor, Patrick HAF,
Bleepin J Squawkins, Pylonz (NZ), Vtek, Sulo, Monkfly, Maladroit,
Fangle, The Herd, 8-bit, The Alphatown Collective, MC Ozi Batla,
DASE Team 5000, The A.L.F., Groovy D.

All-Ages Hip-Hop
Palais Royal Youth Venue
7 - 11pm: ($7 - All Ages)
Terminal Illness, Terra Firma, Clear Opinions, Bric a Brac, FUN Q,
Phonetic Experiments, DJ Mathematics,  Bladez of Hadez

Ballistic
10PM - 3AM: Hunter on Hunter Hotel: ($2 Entry or PASS)
Syndicate, Aftermath, Memetic, Hedonist + Epsilon, DJ Mark N

Audio Visual Exhibition
A/V Warehouse: (Entry By Donation)
base electro(n), cybernetik, dark organics, decoder, deprogram,
dumk and goony, onika, pharmaceutical essentials, sawtooth,
Sound Wave Generator, throbgoblin, Z Pyramid

SATURDAY NIGHT (September 29)

Anticon
8 - 11:30pm: Mission Theatre: ($15 or PASS)
Anticon (Dose One, Sole and Jel - USA), Curse Ov Dialekt, TZU,
Music Vs Physics, Celcius, 13th Son of December, Macros Matrix,
Jade Nemesis, Dr Phibes, Blaze, DJ Armee, Mako, Speed, Frost.

Vitalbeat 2001
10 - 5am: Cambridge Hotel: ($15 or PASS)
DJ Patsan & Electrofunk, Nubreed, Richy valenz, Chris calm,
Auxilary, Dj janak, Skooby + Bred, Tom obrien, Clone, Meem,
Dj Gary Bynon + Brownie, Luscious Lorna, Outpost Uncorporated.

Audio Visual Exhibition
A/V Warehouse: (Entry By Donation)
DJ Supermarket, Soon, Tonsil Cheesecake, The Torture Table,
The Dreamtime Brothers, Transcendental Headache, Mighty Mac,
DJ Mad, DJ Fallout

SUNDAY NIGHT (September 30)

Urban poets jam + Undercurrents (Taiwan)
7 - 11pm: Mission Theatre (Free!):
urban poets jam, Undercurrents (Taiwan), SIZE (last ever show!)

Internationals Gig
10pm - 5am: Cambridge Hotel ($25 or PASS):
Mad Professor (UK), HRVATSKI (USA), David Shea (Belgium),
Stinky Jim (NZ), DJ Mr. King (UK), Jimi Chen & DJ TY (Taiwan),
Fat Cat Records Sound System (UK), Kog Transmissions (NZ),
Nasenbluten (last ever show!), Ubin, Blastcorp, Sub Bass Snarl,
DASE team 5000, Downtown Brown, Pivot, DJ smallcock, Sugar,
Paul Abad, philasophigas, Ollie Olsen, Ganga Giri, Organarchy,
Andrew Till, Raven, DJ Krusty, House of Pagan Christians.

Audio Visual Exhibition
A/V Warehouse: (Entry By Donation)
base electo(n), deprogram, phreaddee, The Dr., Throbgoblin,
Z Pyramid

MONDAY (October 1)

All Day Chill
8am - all day ... : Mission Theatre: (Free!)
Nod, Quark Kent, Purdy, Betaville Orchestra, Phunkenbubble,
Echelon, DJ Trip, Wagga Space Programme, Chindogu,
Pseudo Sound Project, Magnus Music, Kundalini.


There is a weekend gig pass set at $45 that will get you into all
of the gigs on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

This bargain ticket is strictly limited to 500 tickets (due to venue
size limits). And these tickets are already selling fast. There are
less than 250 for sale online and the rest will be distributed to
some stores later in the week (stay tuned for details). Don't miss out!

They are now available online for $49 (incl $4 booking fee) from:

http://www.octapod.org.au/thisisnotart/2001/gigs.shtm#buytickets


AUDIOVISUAL PRESENTATIONS

2001: Then and Now
A look at how our present was imagined 34 years ago. Archimedia
presents the future as seen by the corporate imagination, using
examples from the late '60s and early '70s, particularly in terms of
the techno/rave subculture and the anti-globalisation movement.

Undercurrents
Toy Satellite (Melbourne) and Eyedrink Collective(Taiwan) present
Undercurrents: an audiovisual techno spectacular. Originally produced
for the Taipei International Arts Festival.

Hip hop on Film
Wave Twisters (music by Q bert) & Scratch, the story of Hip Hop.
Plus La Prochaine Fois by Neotropic.

Media.teck
Works chosen for their subversive approach and playful tactics in
challenging notions of art, censorship and copyright. Includes several
leading installation, net and media artists - see <http://electrofringe.org>
for details.

Plus all night Anime Screenings, LDTV, Experimental Short Films,
Mu Meson Archives Film Extravaganza, and more.


OTHER SESSIONS

This Is Not Art also includes more than 200 workshops, panels,
talks, and masterclasses. Electrofringe is providing over 50 of these,
with such alluring titles as:

Patcher Paradigms
The Political and the Absurd: Humour in Sampling
My Darling, My Centrifuge
Music Video Production Workshop & Screenings
AutoMatic Documentary
Dr Sonique Presentation
Anne-Marie Schleiner presentation
Money for New Media Artists
Fluid Transmissions
Celine Bernardeau Presentation
Wet Dreams Made Solid
The Intellectual Property Wars
Audio Interactives
Copyright Showdown
Introduction to jMAX
Video feedback
VJ tools for the PC
VR - utopian futures or just another game?
Boxes With Knobs
Websound... the state of the arts
People Like Us - Audiovisual Masterclass
NOT Culture Jamming
Culture jamming: Art or Activism?
Flash for Visuals
Spookyville Presentation
VR - 12 Months On
Computer Game Music: past, present and future
Mark Dery Web Linkup
Lumiere Concrete
VJ tools for the Mac
An introduction to 5.1 audio for musicians and sound designers
Anime and Visual Culture
Online pranks
Codecs, Compression, And Video Discs For Live Visuals
Napster Nuggets
Impact of technologies on mental health
Copyright And The Image
Social Disorientation
Andy Cox Citibank Launch
Girls and Gaming
Innovative Curating
Is The Global Village Growing?
net.wurk.construc][tion][k


For the full programme check out
http://electrofringe.org

or

http://thisisnotart.org


For all media enquiries, interviews, bios etc, contact
Joni Taylor
Electrofringe coordinator
[email protected]

For all other enquiries, contact
Shannon O'Neill
Electrofringe coordinator
[email protected]

Phone/Fax +61 2 4927 0470 


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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:09:22 +0200
From: "SOC.Stockholm" <[email protected]>
Subject: Vote in the UTOPIAN W.C. 2001!


VOTE IN THE FIRST UTOPIAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2001 !

The Utopian World Championship is a worldwide competition in utopian
thinking that has been going on since the 18:th of january 2001. All the
people of the world were then invited to take part in this unique
competition. During this summer the competitors have been working on their
proposals wich can be viewed today on our the web site
http://www.soc.nu/utopian/.

We now invite the public to help us to elect seven finalists. The voting
process will be held online at the web site http://www.soc.nu/utopian/ and
will continue until the 31:st of October. Among the contributions that will
not be elected by the public, SOC.Stockholm vill choose three contributions
that will qualify for the final.

All voters that submit an valid e-mail address will take part in the
lottery of a masterpiece in utopian theory, the book "The principle of
hope" by Ernst Bloch.

In december, a jury composed of six idea historicians, political analysts,
philosophers and artists will choose a winner among the ten finalists who
will recieve 1000 US Dollar and whose contribution will be presented to
governments and other poweful institutions around the world.

Welcome to vote at http://www.soc.nu/utopist/ !

Contact SOC.Stockholm at:
- ---------------------------------
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +46 8 640 89 07

Address:
SOC.Stockholm
Bondegatan 64
SE-116 41 Stockholm
Sweden

The Utopian World Championship 2001 is arranged by SOC. Stockholm, an
artistic, socio-cultural, experimental forum run Jon Brunberg, Pernilla
Carlsson Sj=F6din, Annika Drougge, Anna-Lena Lundmark, Johan Malmstr=F6m,
Tobias Sj=F6din and Karin Will=E9n.


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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:22:16 +0200
From: Kulturamt der Stadt Oldenburg <[email protected]>
Subject: Ausstellung im =?iso-8859-1?Q?Edith=2DRu=DF=2DHaus=20f=FCr?= Medienkunst

  [English see below]



AVATARE UND ANDERE
Edith-Ru�-Haus f�r Medienkunst

DAN GRAHAM, LYNN HERSHMAN, MARKUS HUEMER, KRISTIN LUCAS, VICTORIA VESNA

Er�ffnung: 14. September 2001, 19 Uhr
Performance mit Victoria Vesna, 20 Uhr
Die Performance von Victoria Vesna findet statt, ist aber aus gegebenem
Anlass modifiziert worden, um darauf zu reagieren.



EDITH RU� HAUS F�R MEDIENKUNST
KATHARINENSTRA�E 23
26121 OLDENBURG
DEUTSCHLAND

tel     +49 (0) 441 235 3208
fax    +49 (0) 441 235 2161




AVATARS AND OTHERS
Edith Russ Site for Media Art

DAN GRAHAM, LYNN HERSHMAN, MARKUS HUEMER, KRISTIN LUCAS, VICTORIA VESNA

Opening: 14 September, 2001 7pm
Performance by Victoria Vesna, 8pm
The performance by Victoria Vesna will take place but has been modified
to respond to the circumstances.

EDITH RU� SITE FOR MEDIA ART
KATHARINENSTRA�E 23
26121 OLDENBURG
GERMANY

t. +49 (0) 441 235 3208
f. +49 (0) 441 235 2161

- --




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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:58:03 +0200 (MEST)
From: Nina =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tempor=E4r?= <[email protected]>
Subject: "Interpassivitaet"-Vortrag

Im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe <I>digital happy hour</I>:

Robert Pfaller: 
"Interpassivit�t - Studien �ber delegiertes Geniessen"

Mittwoch, 26. September 2001, 20.00 Uhr
Literaturhaus / Bibliothek, M�nchen, Salvatorplatz 1

Vortrag und Buchpr�sentation in Kooperation mit dem Literaturhaus M�nchen 

"Interaktivit�t" heisst das neue Zauberwort im Medienzeitalter - ein
andauernder Trend, der neue M�glichkeiten zur Mitgestaltung am Produktions- und
Rezeptionsprozess eines (Kunst-)Werks verspricht und dessen Anh�nger
nicht-interaktive Medien als langweilig oder gar "didaktisch" einstufen. Der
Medientheoretiker Robert Pfaller dagegen entlarvt einen Gro�teil des heutigen Gebrauchs
Neuer Medien in Kunst und Alltagskultur als Ph�nomene delegierten Geniessens:
sollte man angesichts der vielen Videofreaks, die ihre Recorder fernsehen
lassen, Fernsehkom�dien, die f�r die Zuschauer lachen, und Akademiker, f�r die
der Kopierer das Lesen erledigt, nicht vielmehr von "interpassiven" Akten
sprechen? Zu dieser provokativen These hat Pfaller einen Reader herausgegeben,
Beitr�ge u.a. von Slavoj Zizek, Stella Rollig und Wolfgang Pauser.

- -- 
GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet.
http://www.gmx.net


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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:22:10 +0200
From: "Tommaso Tozzi" <[email protected]>
Subject: [Hacker Art News] formail -zx: Subject:

HelpConferenze a cura di Strano Network:

 Museo Pecci, Prato
11 settembre ore 15
"MuSE - come crearsi la propria radio in internet"
di Jaromil.
(VEDI SCHEDA DI SEGUITO)

Le Rampe, Porta San Niccolo', Firenze
11 settembre ore 21
"No copyright e MP3"
di Raf Valvola Scelsi.
(VEDI SCHEDA DI SEGUITO)


Le conferenze si tengono all'interno del ciclo di eventi organizzati per

MP3 CONTEST 2001
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l'alternativa interattiva e orizzontale al Festival di Sanremo
www.mp3contest.org


 a cura di
STRANO NETWORK

con la collaborazione di
Le Nozze di Figaro, Controradio, Museo Pecci di Prato, Il Cappellaio Matto,
Teatro Studio di Scandicci









SCHEDA CONFERENZA JAROMIL AL MUSEO PECCI
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"MuSE - come crearsi la propria radio in internet"
Conferenza di Jaromil

11 settembre ore 15
Museo Pecci di Prato

Durante questo seminario verranno illustrate piu' in dettaglio dal suo
autore
le caratteristiche, le possibilita' offerte e le modalita' di utilizzo di
MuSE
allo scopo di chiarire quali siano le tecnologie necessarie a fare streaming
in rete e come esso funzioni, per dare ai partecipanti la conoscenza
necessaria a creare la propria radio online, ascoltabile da chiunque su
internet, a costo 0.

Jaromil e' il programmatore di MuSE con august black.

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MuSE Team :
:: jaromil      ++ programmatore e mantainer
:: august black ++ autore dell'interfaccia
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MuSE == riconoscimenti presenze e performances:

NET.Congestion - International Streaming Festival - Amsterdam [oct00]
:: [ http://net.congestion.org/html/archive.html ]
** il team di MuSE e' stato invitato a presentare il progetto e ad
intervenire
    all'interno del panel "Protocol Alternatives"

LOA hacklab - MuSE & HasciiCam: streaming 4 the masses! - Milano [nov00]
:: [ http://www.ecn.org/loa ]
** seminario sull'utilizzo e sulla manipolazione dei due progetti di
    dyne.org per lo streaming in rete: MuSE e HasciiCam

Atlantic Transfer Jam - network jam session - Chicago/Linz/NewYork [dec00]
:: [ http://atj.dyne.org ]
** una jam session musicale performata contemporaneamente da piu' musicisti
    attraverso due continenti, remixando i suoni provenienti dalla rete e
    creando 3 eventi differenti ma una sola performance

Best of Linux Award - Linux DaveCentral - linux.davecentral.com [jun01]
:: [ http://linux.davecentral.com/bol_20010604.html ]
** linux.davecentral, storico sito di distribuzione di software per linux,
ha
    voluto confermare il valore di MuSE onorando dyne.org di questo Award e
di
    una lusinghiera recensione






     :: D Y N E . O R G ::

MuSE - Multiple Streaming Engine
    [ http://muse.dyne.org ]

MuSE e' un Software Libero che ha ricevuto finora supporto hardware e
piccoli
finanziamenti da associazioni culturali, hacklab e privati. Qualsiasi
organizzazione o individuo puo' aiutare in modo significativo il progetto
MuSE
contribuendo finanziariamente con donazioni per lo sviluppo, fornendo
bandwidth tramite dei mirror, donando hardware o libri per la ricerca,
presentando MuSE su stampa e altri media ed organizzando seminari e
iniziative
nei quali illustrare MuSE e le sue potenzialita'. Lo staff di dyne.org e'
inoltre disponibile per la realizzazione di corsi di formazione all'uso di
MuSE, personalizzazione del software a seconda di particolari esigenze,
allestimento ad/hoc di stazioni di streaming e piu' in generale a fornire
garanzie e supporto perche' MuSE risolva le esigenze di chiunque voglia fare
streaming audio in rete. E' disponibile una mailing-list che permette agli
utenti di scambiarsi domande e consigli in presenza degli stessi autori,
all'indirizzo: <[email protected]> per iscriversi basta una mail a
<[email protected]>. Per contattare direttamente il team di sviluppo
di
MuSE scrivere a: <[email protected]>.

MuSE e' un'applicazione Linux che permette di mixare, comprimere e
trasmettere
suoni in rete tramite l'utilizzo delle tecnologie mp3 e ogg-vorbis. MuSE
puo'
mixare simultaneamente fino a 6 canali - ognuno dei quali puo' essere un
file
.mp3 o .ogg o anche un'altro stream proveniente dalla rete - e su di essi
aggiungere un input proveniente dalla scheda sonora (line-in o microfono);
il
mix risultante puo' essere ascoltato in locale o essere a sua volta
reinviato
in rete (ad un server icecast/shoutcast) e reso ascoltabile tramite
l'utilizzo
di svariati programmi liberamente disponibili per ogni sistema operativo.
Per
il suo utilizzo MuSE offre un'interfaccia intuitiva, nonche' la possibilita'
di ripetere operazioni programmabili o di essere controllata da remoto via
rete. MuSE, il suo codice sorgente e tutta la documentazione disponibile
costituiscono un Software Libero rilasciato sotto Licenza Pubblica GNU. MuSE
viene sviluppata dai suoi autori nella speranza di fornire alla comunita'
del
Software Libero uno strumento che sia di facile utilizzo per lo streaming
audio in rete, rendendo la vita piu' facile alle radio indipendenti e
moltiplicando le possibilita' di liberta' d'espressione in rete.

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SCHEDA CONFERENZA RAF "VALVOLA" SCELSI ALLE RAMPE
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- - Le Rampe, Porta San Niccolo', Firenze
Firenze, 11 settembre ore 21:
"No copyright e MP3", di Raf Valvola Scelsi.

Raffaele "Valvola" Scelsi  � il curatore insieme a Ermanno "Gomma" Guarneri
della collana di libri Interzone della casa editrice Feltrinelli. La collana
Interzone opera una riflessione ad ampio raggio sui mutamenti sociali messi
in atto dall'avvento delle nuove tecnologie della comunicazione.
Scelsi � anche uno dei fondatori della rivista internazionale Decoder, la
prima rivista underground in Italia ad occuparsi del movimento culturale
"cyberpunk", promuovendo gi� dalla seconda met� degli anni ottanta un punto
di vista critico sui nuovi media.
Scelsi � inoltre uno degli editori della Shake Edizioni Underground, casa
editrice decollata grazie al grande successo della prima antologia di saggi
"Cyberpunk" uscita in Italia nel 1990 e curata da Raffaele Scelsi stesso.
Sempre per la Shake Ed. Scelsi ha realizzato il libro "No Copyright", un'
antologia di testi che fornisce un'esauriente ricognizione sulle tematiche
connesse ai diritti nel nuovo millennio.
La conferenza "No copyright e mp3" descriver� quali siano le complesse e
contraddittorie conseguenze sociali che l'avvento di una nuova tecnologia
creata per far circolare la musica in Internet, la tecnologia "mp3" appunto,
ha messo in moto, toccando sia gli aspetti dell'economia che quelli del
diritto e della libera espressione.


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Tommaso Tozzi
Docente di Teoria e Metodo dei Mass Media, Accademia di Belle Arti di
Carrara
Docente di  Teoria e Metodo di Sceneggiatura Multimediale, Master in
Multimedialita', RAI e Universita' di Firenze
Via XXIV Maggio 14, 50129, Firenze, Italia
Tel. 055-485996


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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 08:40:19 +1000
From: "geert lovink" <[email protected]>
Subject: ny: global studies conference 9/21-22/01

From: "Bruce Simon" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 1:38 AM
Subject: global studies conference 9/21-22/01

Subject:  Global Studies Roundtable Conference
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:31:18 -0400
From: Robert Marzec <[email protected]>

All:  Please pass the word along to your colleagues and students.
Members from the departments of English, History, and Political Science
at SUNY Fredonia have put together a non-traditional conference based on
roundtables that will include a number of
important scholars from the U.S. and Canada, in addition to our own
faculty.  It will be a rare opportunity to have all these people
presenting together.  For further details, contact Bob Marzec
([email protected]) or Bruce Simon ([email protected]).

MINICONFERENCE IN WESTERN NEW YORK:
             Globalization:  The Stakes of Global Studies in the
twenty-first century
DATES: FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21-22, 2001
LOCATION: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK COLLEGE AT FREDONIA, FREDONIA NY,
USA.

"Globalization: The Stakes of Global Studies" takes as its point of
departure the subject of "Global Studies"-a field of intellectual
inquiry in the university system that ostensibly speaks directly to
international relations and corporate control in the past and present.
It is a series of roundtables designed to spark conversations across the
disciplines about the
phenomenon of globalization.  The conference is planned in such a way as
to resist the traditional format of an academic conference.  There will
only be one roundtable panel per time slot.  Presenters have been asked
to frame a question, a problem, or an argument briefly, at which time
the focus will then turn to a dialogue among the presenters, and with
the audience.  The conference will thus be a two-day long conversation
on the subject of globalization and global studies.

Roundtable Presenters Include:

�       Eric Clarke (University of Pittsburgh, advisory editor for
boundary 2, author of Virtuous Vice: Homoeroticism and the Public
Sphere).
�       Lennard J. Davis (University of Illinois, Chicago, author of
Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body, coeditor of Left
Politics and the Literary Profession).
�       Richard Eaton (University of Arizona, author of The Rise of
Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760; Islamic History as Global
History).
�       Ranjana Khanna (Duke University, author of Dark Continents:
Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Postcolonial Condition).
�       Peter Linebaugh (University of Toledo, author of The Many-Headed
Hydra).
�       Deborah Rosenfelt (University of Maryland, Director of Women's
Studies, Area, and International Studies Project entitled "Women and
Gender in an Era of Global Change: Internationalizing and 'Engendering'
the Curriculum," author of Sex, Class, and Race in Literature and
Culture).
�       William Spanos (Binghamton University, founding editor of
boundary 2, author of America's Shadow; The Errant Art of Moby-Dick: The
Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies).
�       Rinaldo Walcott (York University, author of Black Like Who?).

Fields of inquiry such as "Global Studies," "Transcultural Studies,"
"International Studies," and others have come to transform the
disciplines of Anthropology, Economics, English, Geography, History,
Political Science, and Sociology, but in a manner different from that of
"Cultural Studies," or even "Postcolonial Studies."  Though widely
acknowledged, global studies has not been adequately thought, especially
in relation to the stakes of intellectual inquiry in the contemporary
occasion of the economic, political, and cultural circulation of
knowledge on a planetary level.  One concern of the conference is to
consider the stakes of developing a global studies curriculum in
academia, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels-and to hazard
for question the rationale for any such curriculum.  Participants will
be concentrating on the relation between epistemology, pedagogy,
citizenship, and power in a global order.

These are some of the questions that guided us in the planning of the
conference: What do the different disciplines mean by "Global Studies"?
What role might a global studies program play?  What would be the
intellectual responsibility of the University in this new capacity?
What are the ontological shifts involved in the development of a global
order, and the consequences of those changes?  How do questions of
ethnicity, gender, race and class change in relation to a global order?
What would be the structure of a "global politics of gender," for
instance?  What are the consequences in shifting concepts such as
"global sisterhood" and "transnational feminism"?  Moreover, what kind
of human subjectivity is made available in this order? What are the
potentials for forming coalitions with labor unions locally and globally
when it comes to dealing with the effects of globalization?   In the
wake of organic, national identities and filiations, what is to become
of "citizenry"? How does the Global change the status of the Local, and
the nature of "local resistance"? In general, what positions are made
available for subjects and communities in a global order, and what are
the potentials for alterity and freedom?

This event is sponsored in part by a grant from the Carnahan-Jackson
Humanities Fund of the SUNY Fredonia College Foundation.

- --Bruce
[email protected]
www.fredonia.edu/department/english/simon/





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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:23:57 +0100
From: Cornelia Sollfrank <[email protected]>
Subject: call - 'very CYBERFEMINIST INTERNATIONAL'

Call for Proposals/Abstracts 

'very CYBERFEMINIST INTERNATIONAL', hamburg 2001


organizer: old boys network 
(Verena Kuni, Helene von Oldenburg, Claudia Reiche, Cornelia Sollfrank)
date: december 13-16, 2001
location: lichtmess-kino

This will be a three-day conference addressing different themes each day, and including evening programs. 

01. opening reception 
[evening, december 13, 2001, thursday]
At the opening reception OBN introduces itself in a performative way. All speakers of the conference as well as other additionally invited CYBERFEMINISTs present their personal approach to CYBERFEMINISM during a poster presentation. 20-30 presenters are standing in front of their individual posters and explain 
it to the audience. The single presentations do not exceed 10 minutes and will be 'looped'. Everybody will be talking, playing and performing at the same time.


02: CYBERFEMINIST networking - knot working - not working?
v[day, december 14, 2001, friday]
Due to the underlying dynamics of networks there is a permanent need to clarify the changing organizational structure and the way that individual members see the network and their roles within it. It is important that members express their divergent ideas of structure and networking and develop them into a common structure which only can be the basis for networked action and reality. Using an open format, the past, the present, and the future goals of obn will be discussed, and all kinds ot utopian visions for obn's future will be aired. A next step will be to go beyond our own network, and to look at the condition and the potential of self-organized structures as an alternative to institutional forms within the art system, academia and politics, and discuss their relations and interdependencies.


03: function of (start) function of (shut) function of (stop) function of (open) = new border concepts
[day, december 14 & 15 2001, friday & saturday]

Mathematical functions are the core of algorithms that operate computers. Temporal and spatial borders can be written as interacting functions. Closings and beginnings, endings and openings combine and cross, thus modeling the experiences of borders we enjoy or suffer. Breakthrough, shelter, prison, invasion or escape are not neutral in terms of control. For: who is able to manipulate those functions? They are always political. 
Liberation was another word for a hack in the system's functions in operation, inserting the border of the real into the reality of the operating system. New border concepts perform the relations of power as well as the dynamics of variable temporal and spatial functions. 
 
CYBERFEMINISM is no game without borders, but a playing with borders that takes them seriously, a work at the boundaries of that 'contested zone' in which the so-called real and virtual diverge, and which mines utopias of transgression, understanding them as a potential for transformation. If CYBERFEMINISM is also a utopia, then its utopian designs can be fictions as well as specific political options. In the field of CYBERFEMINISM utopias offer differentiated models for discussion which can invent new forms of communication, open up new articulations of space and time which do not only function in cyberspace, or suggest models based on genetic technologies, operating new life or gender models.

The borders between political utopia, science fiction, and technological innovations have always been fluid - beyond judgment as to value. CYBERFEMINISTs take an inventive, tactical part in furthering a perforation, diffusion, conversion, transgression, subversion etc. of cultural forms with new 
technological possibilities. Some points of critical and creative attitudes towards fluid borders and special concern are:

- - new forms of global control and subversion through the electronic networking technology: how to obtain and secure privacy? how to react to the globalized economy and to the growing influence of global trusts on national governments?
 
- - realities and utopian fantasies of leaving the limitations and rules of the known world behind, in outer space as in cyberspace 

- - manipulations of human consciousness with drugs/ pharmaceutials, psychological control, or media-related brainwashing

- - incorporation of technology into the human body and genetic engineering, how to understand and invert, use and misuse the possibilities?

- - new imaginations of gender with and without medical creations and redefinitions of sexual organs etc. 


04: very TRANSGRESSIVE  
On the last evening of the conference there will be party, including concerts, DJs and VJs -- an evening when everybody will be crossing borders!

The live acts within 'very TRANSGRESSIVE' give an insight into technical, cultural, political and economic inventions of electronic music and sound production. They present working methods, with a special focus on the underrepresentation of women in this field. What does "feminist" mean for a female commitment in electronic music? It is a question of "technique" - a 
possible musical, theoretical and political "technique" in discussion with the level of media technological development.


05: brunch
[morning/noon, december 16, 2001, sunday]
A casual get together to think over the results of the conference, strengthen our bodies for the trip back home with good food, and say good-bye to old and new friends.


[06: live media presence]
In addition to changing possibilities of production we find a complete restructuring of distribution, which opens up via Internet and new methods of data compression. New relations between producer and receiver have been introduced, and provide new possibilities for individual and collective production.

Every contribution to the conference will be broadcast via live stream simultaneously through the Internet, and partly through the local radio station FSK in Hamburg.



"very CYBERFEMINIST International" hopes to address many of the issues introduced above. We invite intense conversations, controversies, speculations, papers, projects, presentations in many forms. We invite paradoxical approaches and diverse interpretations of CYBERFEMINIST theory and practice. Our hope is to expand our connections and our horizon, to include an even greater mixture of CYBERFEMINISTs than participated in the 'first' and 'next' CYBERFEMINIST International, and to work out an operational structure for obn which will allow a smoothly running program called 'CYBERFEMINIST future'.  

Call for proposals/abstracts: by october 15, 2001

Please send in proposals and abstracts for posters, presentations, lectures, DJing, and music performances.

Mail to: [email protected]

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